Technically speaking, that wasn't a sickle Buffy used, since it was flat. According to a featurette on the DVD, it was an African weapon with a very strange name. (I suspect that the whole reason for the featurette was to mention that fact, since everybody and his duck thought Mutant Enemy was Commie after that.
My favorite bad line is from The Penetrator #29: Aryan Onslaught: "For the time being, though, his mind returned to the momentary happiness he could capture. His mouth watered at the image of buttery trout, frying in a cast-iron skillet and the tender arms and satin skin of one who loved him."
Open threadiness:
American-Australian Slang Dictionary.
"Zzedar would appear to have committed comment spam. The link goes to a software sales tool site."
Not my intention. "Jing-tsai" is Chinese for "Brilliant," and it was used in "Our Mrs. Reynolds." The URL went to that site because it's actually the closest thing I have to a homepage. I'll leave it out of future posts.
"Keith and Zzedar, the peoples of the Americas became known as 'Indians' because Columbus believed he had reached __________"
Yeah, he thought he had landed there, but that wasn't where he had been intending to land. He just figured he had gotten off course.
"India as a country, with its modern borders, didn't exist in 1492, but that doesn't mean Columbus wasn't looking for India. Africa isn't a country, and wasn't then, but that doesn't mean Vasco da Gama didn't explore its coast."
Columbus was aiming for Japan (which he called "Cathay").
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember'd for a very long time.
--William McGonagall
"Harry Potter fansite The Leaky Cauldron has launched the new portal Ask Peeves."
Ask Jeeves has done its own version of itself.
You probably got this already, but the Thinkgeek anagram shirt decodes to "Shop at Thinkgeek, fools!"
I don't think I ever had a dream that was narrated by a voice, but I've had dreams that had sort of nonverbal words; like I was reading a book, except that I couldn't see the words either.
"he invested in stock in publicly-traded Marxist communes"
I love it. That needs to be in a comic strip. Or a Dortmunder book. Whatever.
There are benefits to being Pope other than the the political/religious, y'know.
Came across a great quote recently:
The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.
--J. M. Barrie, The Contemporary Review, 1891
Bah! Trouble me not with your piddling facts!
All English majors and linguists should read http://www.boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20050210.html. It will make you realize that you've been living a lie for years, and cause you to question all that was once certain. So that's neat.
"These writers engaged in ... acyrlogia"
That's "acyrologia."
Terry Pratchett did a lot with the "nut in the pudding" tradition in Hogfather.
Strictly speaking, it should be "Χmas," not "Xmas." (Depending on your browser, those may appear as the same thing. If so, just take my word for it that they're different. Look at the source if you don't believe me.)
This reminds me an awful lot of poker. There are a lot of players who bet by "feel" or "instinct." They would vehemently deny being superstitious, but would just as vehemently assert that they can somehow "tell" when they're going to get lucky. And, of course, they always lose. Whereas those stodgy, unimaginative, by-the-book robots will rake in small but consistent winnings just by doing the math. Does anyone know if Bush likes to gamble?
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